Pass book



L. c. WALKER Feb. 9; 1932.

PASS BOOK Filed April 25 1928 the succeeding leaf.

' position upon the respective pass book and Patented Feb, 9, 1932 .jiJNY A TES ."QPATENT; oF FICEfJ I ,'LoUIsie. WALKER, or DAYTON, oHIo jdense Bo oK Application filed April 25,

simultaneouslyupon corresponding record or 10 account cards amounts-ofdeposlt, withdrawal, payments, purchase, or the like. In the use of suchregistering and accounting mechanism the customers pass book and therecord 'card of the'bank or merchant are simultaneously inserted in themachine and duplicatev typed imprints are made thereon. It is thereforeessential that the. pass book correspond J exactly with the record oraccount card in order that .the imprint shall be made'in like card? Muchdifliculty hasbeen experienced in the use of bound or sewed books, sincethe attachment of the leaves in the fold of the back tends to produce awelt or unevenness which interferes with the insertion and re-v moval ofthe book and alsointerfereswiththe production of clean cut and -clearimpressions of the recording type in positions close tothe fold of theleaves. "These pass books are ordinarily small, having but few leaves.It is necessary however, that the-printing on opposite sides of theleaves shall be, accu-- rately registered and in the gathering of theleaves it is necessary'that the printing upon one leaf shall registerexactly with that on In the present instance a flat opening book, havingaccurately registered imprint spaces on opposite sides of the leaves andupon succeeding leaves to receive the machine'typed entries of deposits,withdrawals, payments or purchases is produced by printing the entryspaces in a singleoperation on one side only of an elongated strip whichis subsequently folded upon itself reversely into= fan-foldr formation,the alternating folds being interconnected by pasting the unprinted rearface of such strip to forming leaves 0 double thickness with finalleaves comprising the ends of the-printed 'the cover sheet for lininggether' at intervals, thereby 192s. 'seri r-No. 2721753. stripformingleaves. of single thickness, one ofwhich ispasted to the innerlsurfaceof and for stiffemng purposes.

The printingof opposite sides of succeeding pages simultaneously upon acontinuous surfacelnsures accurate'reglstry, and also V permits, fiatopening of the book;

The object of the invention is to simplify the construction pf flatopening. pass books,

and the like, whereby they will not only be cheapened'inconstruction,but, whereby the printed registration faces'of the book will be inproper registry'with each other, and

:whereby the book may be printed and assembled with minimum laborandexpense.

, A further object of the invention isto provide a pass book, or thelike,which will open fia't without an obstruction, oifsetor shoulderatthe fold of the book which will interfere with its insertion into aregistering or-imprinting machine.

With the above primary and other; incidental objects in view, as willmore fully ap% pear in the specification, the invention'com' 'sists ofthefeatures' of construction, the

parts and combinations thereof, and'the mode of operation, or theirequivalents, as hereinafter described. and set forth in'the claims;

wherein is shown the preferred, but obviously not necessarilythe onlyform of embodiment of the invention, Fig. lis a perspective view of thepass book forming the subject which suchgpass book must agree. Fig. 2 isa view of the printed sheet in extended form t so Referring to theaccompanying-drawings,

matter hereof and of the record card with v ing themanner of folding andpasting the sections of the strip to form. successive leaves.

Like parts areindicated by similar characters of reference vthroughoutthe several views. V Books of the present type are usually quite small,consisting of but four pages to receive imprint entries, Forillustrativev printed on one side thereof the form of a comprising eachare of sin le thickness.

pasted to the inner of the institution,

This printing is done at a single impression. .The strip 1 is foldedreversely at spaced intervals as indicated at 2 and 3. The'reverse sideof the strip 1 is plain. The plain sides of these successive folds areunited by pasting or gluing to form one or more leaves 4 of doublethickness,

succession of pages.

which will bear on their opposite faces or pages successive sections ofthe printed impression. These leaves of double thickness may be pastedor glued throughout their enthe area, but for'economy of manufacture andsimplicity of assembly the folded sections double thickness leaf arepreferably united on narrow strips 5 adjacent to the inner fold 2. Thesuccessive folds 2 and 3 of the printed strip 1 are in such di rectionthat the terminal sections or pages 6 The back or cover of the bookconsists of a single continuous sheet of aper, fabric, or the like, cutto size and medially folded to agree with the size of the leaves t and 6formed from the printed strip. One of the end leaves 6 is pasted to theinner face of one of the folded half sections of the cover sheet 7 Thisprinted page form 6 of single thickness thus forms a lining andreinforcement for the book cover 7 and furthermore serves to attachthereto in proper relation the succeeding leaves of double thicknessformed by united folds of the printed strip. The final page form 6 ofthe printed strip may be similarly face of the opposite back section 7or it may be left loose as shown in Fig. 1, and an independent foldedsheet 8 may have one portion glued to the inner face of the secondsection of the back or cover 7 while the other portion extends free as afly leaf 9. These last mentioned leaves may contain printed matter suchas the rules directions concerning the making of deposits andwithdrawals or contract as to payments, etc.

Obviously, this printed matter may be included upon the terminal pageforms of the original strip 1 and so contained upon one of the leaves ofdouble thickness.

Record folders have heretofore been devised and used wherein a fan-foldor bellows strip is employed, which may be extended to full length andrefolded between the covers there is shown glued or eliminated theobjectionable features of the welt or raised bead forming the back ofthe book, which'when opened flat, forms an obstruction to its insertionwithin the register,

and facilitates proper registration between the imprints upon succeedingpages. The record card 10 withwhich this book is ordinarily employedcontains an imprinted record agreeing exactly with that of the bookpages. The operation of imprinting the amounts of deposits, withdrawalsor payments in the book also effects the same imprinted record 1 uponthe card. For this reason accuracy of registration is an importantfactor.

From the above description it will beapparent that there is thusprovided a construction of the character described possessing theparticular features of advantage before enumerated as desirable butwhich construction obviously is susceptible of modification in its form,proportions and arrangement of parts, without departing from theprinciple involved or sacrificing any of its advantages. I

lVhile in order to comply with the statute the invention is described inlanguage more or less specific as to structural features it is to beunderstood that the invention is not limited to the specific detailsshown, but that the means and construction herein disclosed comprise thepreferred form of several modes of putting the invention into effect,and the invention istherefore claimed in any of its forms ormodifications within the legitimate and valid scope of the appendedclaims.

'Having. thus described myinvention, I claim:

1. An account book comprising a flexible record-strip having thereon asingle printed impression comprising a succession of page formsappearing on one side only of the strip, said strip being transverselyfolded, the adjacent faces of adjacent folds being permanently attachedtogether to form a leaf of double thickness, the opposite faces of whichcomprise successive page forms, the terminal section of said foldedstrip being of single thickness and a folded cover portion to the insideface of one half section of which the terminal leaf of single thicknessis permanently attached throughout to form a reinforcement lining and tosecure said double thickness'lea-f to the cover independent of otherattachment means.

2. In an account book, a filler portion including a leaf of doublethickness and preceding and succeeding leaves of single thicknessintegral with the leaf of double thickness,

and a cover therefor comprisinga medially folded section of material tothe inner face of one half section of which one of said leaves of singlethickness is attached in such relation that the hinge folds of saidintegral leaves coincide with the fold of the cover section,

3. As an article of manufacture, an account I book filler comprising acontinuous strip of record material having page form imprints on I oneside thereof, said strip being alternately folded at spaced intervals,the first fold of which is in the direction of the printed side whichshall form'theinterior faces of the first fold, the interior faces ofalternatefolds comprising the reverse side of the printed i strip beingfixedly attached to each other to form leavesof double thickness and aterminal leaf of singlethickness.

4. The herein describedmethodofforming an account book filler consistingin printing upon one side of an alongated strip a suc cession of pageforms and reversely vfolding the sheet at spaced intervals, the firstfold being disposed with the page formsinteriorly of the fold andpermanently attaching the reverse sides of the succeeding page formstogether in pairs to-form a leaf of double ghickness having page formson its opposite aces. i

5. The herein describedmethod of forming a flat opening book consistingin printlng a succession of page forms on one side of a continuousstrip, reversely foldingthe strip at intervals, the first fold from theend of the strip being directedwith the printed page forms interlorly ofthe fold and forming leaves of additional thickness by permanentlyattaching the reverse sides. ofsucceeding page forms comprising theinterior faces of. succeeding folds one to the other in pairs, andattaching the reverse side of the initial page form to the inner face ofone half section of a folded cover.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day ofApril, A.-D. 1928.

LOUIS o. WALKER. j

